The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-01-07

DEATH OF GEN. LOGAN.
HIS LAST HOURS.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec. 26-
At three minutes of o'clock to-day the
soul of John A. Logan, patriot, soldier and
senator. passed to his rest The wife and
children with whose life his own wac so
closely knit were by his bedside. and re-
ceived the last fiickers of intelligent recogni-
ton that his pain -racked brain was permit
ted to give. The chief of the army of the
nation in whose service he had achieved
such gallant deeds watched with brothers.
love and sympathy his last sad fight; and his
associates OF the senate and house, lrrespect-
i've Of party, awaited in reverent awe the
end which all alike deplored. When Sur
geon General Hamilton entered upon his all
night vigils by the sick mans side last
night he stated confidentially to one of
Gen. Logan's brother senators that unless
reaction should set in within twenty-four
hours he would have no hope of his patents
recovery Through the long watches of the
night the physician watched In vain for some
symptom to indicate that the terrible pres
sure on the brain which was drawing the
life blood away from the heart had relaxed;
but all through the night the condition re-
manned unchanged except for the worse, the
fever and restlessness increasing, and when
DR.. Hamilton was relieved by DR.. Baxter
shortly after 8 O'clock he abandoned all hope
OF recovery. Ais vigils during the night
were shared by Gen. Beale. Gen. Grants
most intimate friend in Washington, and
Representative Symes Of Colorado. The lurk-
ing tendency to brain complications, which
had been present in a greater or less degree,
and constantly increasing in severity during
his entire illness, had prepared his friends to
expect the worst The racking pains which he
suffered during the early days of his illness
yielded to treatment, but left him in weak
and exhausted condition from which he
never rallied, and upon which the fever
preyed with increasing violence until the
hour of his death. After last midnight his
pulse grew weaker and weaker, and at 4
o'clock this morning his condition was such
as to cause great fear of his immediate death
After this he rallied somewhat and at the
consultation which was held at 9 o'clock this
morning his pulse was found to be
somewhat stronger, but his general condition
was not such as to give hope Of ultimate re-
covery. The physicians again met in con-
sultation at $50 p. m, when it was appar-
ent that the patient was rapidly sinking and
could live but o few hours At o'clock the
general revived sufficiently to recognize his
wife, who he's been at his bedside night and
day during his entire illnesa As she spoke
to him he looked up into her face, and all
who were present knew that he recognized
her. This was the last manifestation Of con-
sctousness He then wearily closed his eyes
and sank again into lethargic sleep, from
which he never awoke While the public
has been aware for week or more that Gen
Logan was confined to his room with rheu-
matism, many even of his most intimate
friends were as late as yesterday afternoon
fansuspicfous of the serious character of the
sttack, and to the masses the announcement
In this mornings papers that the states
man lay at deaths door brought
q shock Of sorrowful surprise
All day long the carriages of sympathetic
callers have occupied the space in front of
Calumet place. while hundreds of pedes
trians have clibmed the hill upon which the
Logan mansion stands, to ask if it were true
that all hope was past At 8 o'clock con-
sultation of all three PHYSICIANS, Doctors N.
& Lincoln, Baxter and Hamilton was held,
ard then it was announced to the fa mily
and the most intimate friends that all hope
had been abandoned From in the morn.
Ing until the sad end came the senator's de-
voted wife Law nv him ~, tho had e.eLirr h,
every term Of endenrment to arouse se,ns
spark of returning vitality.
NO SCENE MORE PATHETIC
could be imagined-no scene 30 sacred can
adequately be portrayed In the outbursts OF
her sorrow she repeatedly ejaculated: she
was true in every thought and deed of his
life. The inmost act of his life could be ex.
anfned with hoIor TO him. "Those around
the deathbed understood fully that this re-
mark and others of similar character referred
to the charge that Gen. Logan had not been
true to Gen. Grant, and painful rumor was
circulated that one of the physicians had
ascribed the cerebral trouble which proved
the most dangerous feature of the generals
/ illness to his brooding over this matter in his
weakened condition of health. AS the day
wore on, and the me- wa of the senator's hope.
less condition spread, nearly every membe,
of the senate and house of representatives
remaining in the city called to ascertain by
personal inquiry the truth OF the sad intelli.
gence. Senator Cullom, with his wife and
oaughCer, was tne earnest 70 arrive. Sen
naInh rntt ,h "iisoh' as ha Btal ano
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